SAFE LiDAR Act

The SAFE LiDAR Act would prohibit the use of foreign adversary LiDAR technology—primarily from China—in the United States, with phased restrictions on new transactions and existing use in critical infrastructure and federal systems, beginning three to five years after enactment. It affects covered persons, critical infrastructure operators, and federal entities, while allowing waivers, exemptions for testing/research/export-bound products, and extensions if domestic alternatives are insufficient. The bill also bans new joint ventures or partnerships with foreign adversary LiDAR producers for U.S.-bound technology development and includes enforcement mechanisms, civil penalties, and…

No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.